Python is a high-level, interactive and object-oriented programming language. Its simple syntax makes it easy to learn and fast to work with, so it's a great choice for a first programming language.

No tutorial is good for everyone. This one is aimed at people with no programming experience at all or very little programming experience. If you have programmed a lot in the past using some other language you probably want to read the official tutorial instead.

This tutorial uses Python 3. Python 2 is not under active development anymore, and more and more projects are moving to Python 3. There are a few popular libraries that don't support Python 3 that well at the time of writing this, but you don't need to worry about that just yet. They will probably support Python 3 when you've learned the basics and you need them.

Here's a list of chapters in this tutorial. Read them one by one in the order they are listed, unless you already know some things.

1. Quick introduction to this tutorial
2. Installing Python
3. Installing Python and using it as a calculator
4. Strings, variables, Booleans and None
5. Using functions and storing code in files
6. If, elif, else and while

I'm Akuli and I have written most of this tutorial, but the following people have helped me with it:

• SpiritualForest: Lots of typing error fixes.
• theelous3: Small improvements and fixes.

You may use this tutorial at your own risk. See LICENSE.